A United States soldier from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion of the 508 Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne, has his head shaved by the light of a flashlight at Combat Outpost outside Kandahar City.

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Bernadette Peters smiles at signing of her Book "Stella is a Star," holding a chihuahua for adoption at Broadway Barks, Shubert Alley.

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A police officer tries to stamp out a fire during a milk farmers protest outside of a meeting of European Union agriculture ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels. Milk farmers protested on Monday regarding what they consider are unfair prices on their products.

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Children jump from a tower into the Ammersee Lake in Utting, southern Germany.

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A couple take a photograph in front of thousands of pad locks that decorate the fences surrounding the landmark of the N Seoul Tower, in Namsan Mountain in central Seoul, South Korea. The locks, symbolizing everlasting love and friendship, first appeared in the late 1990's and are now in the tens of thousands, hung in a cult-like ritual with notes and photos from visiting lovers and friends.

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A reveler is pushed by a Victoriano del Rio ranch fighting bull during the sixth run of the bulls at the San Fermin fiesta in Pamplona northern Spain.

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The flight crew applaud as Spain's captain Iker Casillas exits a plane holding the World Cup trophy next to the team coach Vicente del Bosque, third right, at Madrid's Barajas airport. Spain won the World Cup after defeating the Netherlands 1-0 on Sunday.

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Taramis, the prototype of an unmanned combat aircraft of the future. Named after the Celtic god of thunder, the concept demonstrator will test the possibility of developing the first ever autonomous stealthy Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) that would ultimately be capable of precisely striking targets at long range, even in another continent. Should such systems enter into service, they would at all times be under the control of highly-trained military crews on the ground.

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Stone statues known as Moais are pictured during the total solar eclipse in Easter Island, Chile.

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A man walks past the art installation "ben xiang ning jing de chen xi" (Sprinting towards a quiet dawn) by French artist Sacha Sosno, at a residential area in the Central Business District in Beijing.

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A man rides his electric bicycle to transport ducks on a flooded street in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. Flooding, landslides and torrents of mud have killed 50 people in southern China and the government has evacuated thousands of people from homes near an overfilled, leaking reservoir.

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A Tibetan woman drags a yak used for carrying tourists along the shores of Lake Namtso, Tibet Autonomous Region.

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Milk farmers face riot police after throwing boots and clothes during a demonstration outside the European Council headquarters in Brussels.

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A labourer carries empty tins to a recycling factory in Mumbai.

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A prison guard and inmates take part in "Laughter Yoga" inside the Mandaluyong city jail in Mandaluyong city, Metro Manila. Laughter exercises have been introduced to prisoners in Mandaluyong as an addition to their rehabilitation program.

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Radical Russian artist Pyotr Verzilov from politically minded art collective Voina, or War, is detained after storming into a courtroom in Moscow. Verzilov stormed a courtroom, lambasting authorities and letting out dozens of cockroaches from a bag as the court prepared to hear the verdict on Monday for Russian curators Yuri Samodurov and Andrei Yerofeyev for their 2007 Forbidden Art exhibit, which mixed religious icons with sexual and pop-culture images.

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The sun is seen partially covered by the moon on Easter Island 2,299 miles (3700 km) off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean. A total solar eclipse began its 6,800 mile arc over the Pacific Sunday, plunging remote islands into darkness in a heavenly display set to climax on Easter Island.

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Wives and other female relatives of jailed Cuban dissidents grouped in the Ladies in White organization, pray in Havana's Fifth Avenue calling for the release of their loved ones.

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Fireworks light up the sky over Soccer City stadium in Soweto, in suburban Johannesburg after the 2010 World Cup football final between the Netherlands and Spain. Spain won the match 1-0 in extra time to take home the World Cup title.

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The bride rides a horse to the church in the western Macedonian village of Galicnik, during the "Galicnik wedding". Every year, around the Christian Orthodox holiday Petrovden (St. Peters Day), Macedonians from Galicnik gather in this almost deserted mountainous village and couples get married according to the old traditions of this region.

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A woman plays with her hair in a swimming pool in the village Velka Mana southern Slovakia. Temperatures reached 86 F (30 C) and above in many parts of Slovakia.